Morphy

A minimalist tool for phylogenetics with morphological data

What is Morphy?

Morphy is a free, open-source tool for phylogenetic analysis of discrete character data. The program's main unique feature
is the ability to recognize gap symbols as an inapplicable value instead of treating it as missing data. This generates logically
correct ancestral state sequences during tree length counting and searches. However there are differences in the method of tree
length counting that reduce the amount of redundant information and consequent biases. A forthcoming paper will document
these algorithms.

Obtaining all the source

There is currently no binary executable that can be downloaded as we are still working on a cross-platform build system. Morphy
is written in C and C++ distributed as a set of modules/libraries. If you have cmake installed, you can use the
Morphy manifest along with
repo tool to clone all of the Morphy project modules and other dependencies.
A python script in the build directly will run a cmake build system to compile an executable for your machine. There is, unfortunately,
very little that Morphy will actually do for you at this time.